John Wright writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > What I want to do is use the 0.5Gig partitioned after my 1.5Gig RISC OS
 > partition on an IDE harddisc on the ADFS IDE bus. I had a go using
 > bb_riscbsd which didn't complain (error) but doesn't appeared to have
 > worked.
 > 
 > disklabel -w -r wd0a st32132a
 > disklabel: /dev/rdw0a: Device not configured.

Erm more likelt that you have no partition table yet and so wd0a
doesn't exist... when writing the initial disklabel use /dev/rwd0c
(the RAW partition.)

 > I assume this means that bb_riscbsd didn't work.

Unlikely, it's so amazingly simple that there's little to go wrong
(bar user error ;-) ).

 > I'm also assuming that this is a 'big' disc problem.

Also no. bb_riscbsd has no problems with large disks (AFAIR), as the
only thing written by bb_riscbsd is the bootblock (at the very
beginning of the disk. There are problems with cylinder offset
becoming negative thou'.

NetBSD/arm32 doesn't have the problem that RiscOS does with larger
disks. Although a buglette was found recently and has been fixed that
affected *filesystems* larger than 4GB. There is no (practical) limit
in the size of the disk under NetBSD.

 > BFN, John

Cheers Scott

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